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# 8  
Old 12-05-2006
When cron schedues a job for any user, It does not process the profile & ~/.profile. Hence any exported variables needs to be exclusively exported in the shell script which you place in the cron. I woul say add the following ino the begining of your script.

. ~/.profile

Regds,

Kaps
# 9  
Old 12-06-2006
Guys!

My Cron job is now working. I checked those existing entries that are currently working from the crontab and copied exactly the environments into my script, and it works!

Thanks for the help! Smilie
# 10  
Old 01-03-2007
CRON can't execute nohup
Happy New Year Guys!

I'm having a problem on my Cron job.

00 01 * * * /mbs3/mbas5/v601/interfaces/start_nohup_cron.sh

<below is the content of the script>

$ cat start_nohup_cron.sh

#! /usr/bin/sh
nohup ./Shutdown_Startup_Interface.sh > /dev/null &

--------------------------------------------------------
nothing happens
# 11  
Old 01-04-2007
cron
hi!


in the script u have specified ./ instead that u can place the complete path and try out , hope this may solve your problem, still if u face problem try to create a symbolic link to the script file with execute permission and u r redirecting the script output to the null device so there is not output it seems
# 12  
Old 01-04-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tris
Hello!

I have a problem on adding a new crontab. Currently we have a running jobs scheduled on a crontab and they are all successfully running. However, when adding or inserting a new scheduled job, the script doesn't work. Is there any limitations on this?

Please advise.

Thank you very much.


no limitation , but it depends on the system process management and available system memory , just check memory and try to add the lines in script.and the script doesnt have any recursions
# 13  
Old 01-04-2007
Thanks Maheshwin! My entry is now on the process of testing. Smilie
# 14  
Old 01-09-2007
Can Crontab executes bin files?
Hello everyone!

I have a new entry in my cron that contains executable (binary) files and it's not working.

cron entry
44 14 * * * /mbs3/mbas5/v601/interfaces/shutdown_interfaces_tris.sh

$ cat shutdown_interfaces_tris.sh
#! /usr/bin/sh
/mbs3/mbas5/v601/interfaces/notify -a -c SHUTDOWN
sleep 6
/mbs3/mbas5/v601/interfaces/notify -s -c SHUTDOWN

Please advise.

Thanks!
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